Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-24

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throughout New York. PennsvIysn;s anS
a'o the car builders, the ~fo1nderies and
sne general run ofemplyers who run from
70 IOo men are now in the market for
a% material. Higher prices must be
SSaIlzed Tor products before a permanen,
ausahee can be made in the crude ma.
II Is probable that y movement will hs
made IN a short time by working men for
tMo Or iour weeks suspension OF work
uu.nS Ihe summer They will arvue that
- 'hey nave not full time Throughout tbs
se"I u VIII be more to their advantage N
ia 'nelr own del time and have il i'm the
THERE WERE 523 STRIKES
up to June 3Oth evolving 2s4, 734 per.
Sous against 200 strikes for the same time
ns' year envolving 363, S95 persons. OF
tne former 63, coo were engaged in tbs
building trades 50, ZOO were engaged in
Tue transportation, in iron and steel IA O
We" shoe manufacturing establishments
are Spr'nging up in the East, since IsSO
'"e production has increased oDe.halr Tbs
news papers of the country are MAXIM
"nucn rejoicing over what seems To he =
Tapid falling off in the membership of the
Knights "
The architects all over the countrv ex-
peet TO he very busy during the rest OF the
year An immense amount OF work is
projected In the West. The builders are
All tuII mp with contracts which will allow
them no leisure till Christmas. In New
FORK City alone the building contracts for
the hrSt SIX months foot up $47, 900 On
against $50, 600, 600 for the first six months
Of last year. An extraordinary increase
haS been made in other cities esnecialIv in
the West and the workmen in the build
ing trades are all earning high wages.
cooperative concerns are springing nm
IN the West, but rs II rule they do not
seem to he thriving, this if true is more
uue to lack of business capacity than any,
thing else. The working men over Look
Tue IAct mat ability to manage business
successfully IL a very rare quality.
LAB)R POLITICS
are coming up iu the West where the
farmers are acting as ballast. In the
Eastern States where the farmers STAY out
the movements generally make shipwreck.
IN addition to this the old parties in two
or three OF the states east of the Mississippi
have some OF the labor leaders brought up
to swing along with the labor movement,
prevent 1t from accomplishing any
thing.
sixteen new glass factories will start up
IN September having 200 pots,Of which 100
are for windOwSglaSS
During the past 3 months 36l saw and
planning mills were started in the South.
In Missouri, there are i3. OC0 Knights. A
Pennsylvania NAL maker is about moving
20 the Ohio gas fields and others are con
temPlating = smilSr movement. The
Western Knights intend to make the labor
holiday hereafter a grand affair. la
Michigan the Knights number 30, 900.
Newspapers dtcry labor organization on
account Of the immense losses sustained
through idlenesS the logic of the argument
~ not good ~ the losses incurred result
generally in the maintenance OF a higher
rate Of wages than could otherwise be
maintained. Several new silk mills are
projected in Pennsylvania. During the
past year 2O5 square feet of window glass
were turned out tor each head ofpOpulation.
A new steel works will he erected at
Scranton to employ 800 men. During the
past six years 5000 strikes occurred in New
York. American cotton goods mills are
making extensive shipments to China.
The Counelsyille coke workers announce
they will fight it ont. The locomotive ell
gineers have suffered their first defeat at
BROOKLYN.